Our new court filing opposing @TheJusticeDept's effort to impose permanent secrecy on how it sought to hide the collection of my phone and email logs—along with the records a dozen other attorneys for oversight committees in Congress. ⬇️🧵
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1. Did @TheJusticeDept fail to alert the court the phone and email logs it sought belonged to Congressional oversight attorneys?
2. Did it also fail to alert the court that sought to renew the gag orders on @Google even after the leak probe that supposedly justified the subpoenas was closed?
How could gag orders possibly be justified long after the case is closed? It's reasonable to suspect it was to hide from the public the extent of its secret collection of Congressional communications records and the abuses committed in the process.
Unless the court unseals the records, you are not allowed to know.
The @JusticeOIG and Congress are both investigating, so it's a pointless waste of time and taxpayer money for DOJ to be delaying the inevitable by opposing our motion to unseal what it secretly claimed to the court for six years.
These are not "grand jury materials" but rather DOJ's secret requests to a court for gag orders forcing companies like @Google to hide from Congressional attorneys that it forked over their records to the Executive Branch.
Obviously, they ought to be open to public scrutiny.
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